Trump’s remarks at the Sunday presidential debate went beyond saying he would investigate Clinton ― he said definitively that she “would be in jail,” prompting comparisons to countries where dictators imprison their opponents, as MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle noted.

“This isn’t the Congo. That sounds like a third-world dictator to me,” she said on “MSNBC Live.”

Pence, like other Trump supporters, said these remarks were simply referring to the GOP nominee’s promise to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Clinton’s use of a private server during her time as secretary of state and whether she allowed special access to donors to the Clinton Foundation.

The GOP has largely accepted and encouraged calls to imprison Clinton ― the Republican National Convention including frequent chants from the crowd to “lock her up” ― and Trump has previously said his opponent “has got to go to jail.”

“I don’t know why what the FBI was considering doing six months ago sounds like that to you or to any of your viewers,” Pence said on MSNBC.

“What Donald Trump said is no one is going to be above the law,” he said. “There’s going to be no double standards and he said we’re going to look into and get to the bottom of this, which I think is what the American people would fully expect, an even application of the law and I fully support him.”

Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who served under President Barack Obama, decried Trump for indicating he would direct the attorney general to take certain actions.

So @realDonaldTrump will ORDER his AG to take certain actions-When Nixon tried that his AG courageously resigned. Trump is dangerous/unfit